SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Need, Anomie, Bourgeoisie
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Lecture 1 (corresponds to reading in chapter 1 of starting points): Sociology is about connecting the dots between important social and political trends. Inequality tends to hurt societies and cause unhappiness. Sociological imagination by c. wright mills describes a creative way of thinking doing sociology means being able to connect individual experiences and societal relationships. See our own lives in relation to history. Understand how seemingly distant changes have consequences for people nearby. Personal troubles are part of the other side of public issues. Societal imagination helps to see connections between personal troubles and public issues. Public issues link the lives of individuals and they arise out of malfunctioning of society"s institutions. Sociology explains how your life fits together with other lives to form a society and how certain choices or decisions limit others choices. Modern study of sociology began with the enlightenment (1650 1850) (the enlightenment an important era in awakening/development of western philosophy intellect, scientific and cultural life)
